Integral bases for TQFT modules and unimodular representations of mapping class groups

DOI10.1007/S00014-004-0801-5MaRDI QIDQ1881550zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gregor Masbaum, Paul van Wamelen, Patrick M. Gilmer

Publication date 5 October 2004

Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0207093

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General low-dimensional topology (57M99) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56)

Abstract: We construct integral bases for the SO(3)-TQFT-modules of surfaces in genus one and two at roots of unity of prime order and show that the corresponding mapping class group representations preserve a unimodular Hermitian form over a ring of algebraic integers. For higher genus surfaces the Hermitian form sometimes must be non-unimodular. In one such case, genus 3 and p=5, we still give an explicit basis.

Review text

The authors study a form of the \(SO(3)\)-TQFT described in [\textit{C. Blanchet, N. Habegger, G. Masbaum} and \textit{P.Vogel}, Topology 34, 883--927 (1995; Zbl 0887.57009)]. Specifically, they give two different explicit bases for the module \(S_p(\Sigma)\) generated by connected vacuum states over the ring of algebraic integers in a cyclotomic number field. A vacuum state is \(Z_p(M)(1)\in V(\Sigma)\) where \(M\) is a 3-manifold with boundary \(\Sigma\), viewed as a morphism from \(\emptyset\) to \(\Sigma\); \(Z_p(M)\) is the corresponding homomorphism between \(V(\emptyset)\) and \(V(\Sigma)\), and \(V\) is a TQFT functor. The authors also show that there is a non-degenerate unimodular Hermitian form on this \(S_p(\Sigma)\) when \(\Sigma\) is a surface of genus 1 or 2, and that in some higher genus cases the form must be non-unimodular.

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• A unified Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariant for integral homology spheres
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• Heegaard genus, cut number, weak p-congruence, and quantum invariants
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• All finite groups are involved in the mapping class group
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• Integral lattices of the SU(2)-TQFT-modules
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• Integral lattices in TQFT
• Minimal integral models for principal series Weil characters

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• Mathematica
• TQFT
• HYP

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